DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER, a world-recognized scientist in the fields of medical biochemistry, botany and medicine, has spent a lifetime interpreting science for the general public. In 2023, Dr. Beresford-Kroeger received the University College Cork Distinguished Alumni Award and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society Kamookak Medal. She is the author of a number of bestselling books on nature. Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest won the Arbor Day Foundation Award for an exemplary educational work on trees and forests. In 2020, she received the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for her autobiographical To Speak for the Trees. She is the author and presenter of the feature documentary Call of the Forest, which is based on her book The Global Forest. Beresford-Kroeger continues her research and writing in her private arboretum in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
• "The acclaimed Canadian botanist and
medical biochemist combines her profound knowledge of horticulture
and her unique sense of spirituality and Aboriginal traditions as
well as alternative and Western medicine with one goal: good
living. . . . Inspiring and enlightening." Maclean's
• "[The Sweetness of a Simple Life] is her
most accessible [book] to date, a collection of gentle musings
about silence, her root cellar, tree medicines, pets, gifts for
birds, and how she cured her husband of his 3-pack-a-day smoking
habit." Sarah Hampson, The Globe and Mail
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